Happy Thanksgiving Teajo and hope you will get some good sales out of our generous Black Friday discounts. I’m thankful for my husband and nearly grown kids, my extended family, and many wonderful friends. Also thankful that my husband likes to cook as much as I do, so had a moment to go on Steepster today and check out the upcoming sales!

Happy Thanksgiving Teajo and all you other beautiful Steepster people. Today (and pretty much every other day too) I’m so very thankful for my family and friends, my amazing fiancee, my pups and cats and my love of tea. Hope everyone has a perfect turkey and tea day!

I am thankful for my two beautiful daughters: one who has grown up into an amazing young woman who has already managed to establish a very positive direction for her own life, and one who is well on her way toward that (she’s quite a bit younger though!)

I am thankful to have a wonderful husband who even though he doesn’t understand my obsessions with tea and art, he accepts them as part of me and allows me to keep them as a very big part of my life. I don’t think that there is another person out there who could understand me the way he does, and I’m so grateful for that.

I’m thankful for the unconditional love shown to me by my gramma. My mother nor my step-mother could not fill that role, my gramma was my true maternal figure in my life and I could not have asked for a better one. She loved me no matter what, and was always so supportive of everything I did. I miss her greatly, but, I am so grateful for the things I have learned from her, it is because she was so amazing that I am able to be the mother that I am today.

I am thankful for tea and for art. These two things keep me sane (or as sane as is possible for me). I am thankful that I have a community like Steepster where I am able to celebrate tea without feeling like my love for the drink is unusual. I am so grateful to have found others that love it as I do.

I’m thankful for being here in my comfy house with a full tummy (burp!), a cup of hot tea and the person I love to share with me the upcoming holiday season. Oh, and a fairly dependable Internet connection, of course!

I’m thankful for my little family which is made up of myself, my wonderful boyfriend Nathan, and our five sweet rats – Brinkley, Derby, Fintan, Fievel, and Hadley. I’m thankful for the impact each one of them has had on my life and that I can look forward to coming home to them each day.

I’m also thankful for steepster I’ve learned so much about tea this past year and I’m really happy to be a part of this awesome community.

I am grateful to be alive. I am not currently, but in the past I have suffered from suicidal thoughts. Not seeing a therapist and not on meds, but my sweetie, Troy who is also my best friend has been helping me thru things. I am grateful for my parents, particularly my Dad, he’s always been wonderful. My Step Mom, She’s great for my Dad. (They got married this past April.) To my now gone kitty, Buzz, he gave my Dad and I 13 years and was a really sweet cat. My other kitty, Schmudge, she is still with us and thriving, enjoying the attention she gets from everyone.
And lastly, grateful to this site…without it would been lost pretty quick, and made more mistakes.

You and I both! I was in a really bad head space last winter and on New Year’s Eve I attempted suicide ultimately ending up in a local emergency psych ward. Back then I just thought I’d hit rock bottom and nothing was going to get better, but now I see there;s still alot more to get done, colleges to graduate from, amazing partners to grow into life mates and of course, much much much more tea to drink! You are certainly not alone!